JHU won its opening game for the ninth consecutive season and ran its win streak against the Yellow Jackets to seven games. Hopkins has won 89 of its past 100 games.

The game was the first for Greg Chimera as head coach at JHU. Chimera was named head coach after Jim Margraff, who led the Blue Jays to 221 wins in 29 seasons, died suddenly on Jan. 2, weeks after guiding the Blue Jays to the NCAA Division III semifinals for the first time in school history.

Johns Hopkins (1-0) grabbed an early 7-0 lead on the strength of a 17-play, 86-yard first-quarter drive that took more than eight minutes off the clock. JHU converted all five of its third-down tries on the drive, including the final play, when senior quarterback David Tammaro connected with junior Stephen Gervasi in the end zone on third-and-goal from the 7-yard line. That score held up until late in the second quarter, when the Yellow Jackets got on the board with a 25-yard field goal. Complete box score

The teams traded third-quarter field goals, and Hopkins pushed its edge to 17-6 early in the fourth quarter following an interception by Ryan Weed deep in Randolph-Macon territory. The turnover led to a 4-yard TD strike from Tammaro to Harrison Wellmann with 13:06 remaining.

Randolph-Macon scored its only touchdown of the game midway through the fourth quarter, but the Yellow Jackets' final two drives ended in interceptions, one by JHU's Nick Seidel and one by Macauley Kilbane.